Founder of Proud Boys Says He's Arranging Surrender of Men in Brawl

Mr. Miller noted that, under the law, the police in New York have strict rules that limit their investigations of political groups. But, he added, "Violence is violence."

Demonstrators protested the club's decision to invite Mr. McInnes for much of last week, and the president of the club, Deborah Coughlin, said. Early on the morning, vandals spray-painted anti-fascist graffiti on the club's headquarters on East Street 83rd, glued the locks shut up and threw bricks through the windows, the police said.

The speech was originally intended to commemorate the murder of a Japanese socialist by an ultranationalist badbadin, but Mr. McInnes peppered it with mocking attacks on leftists, bads and people in the Black Lives Matter movement.

After the speech was over, Mr. McInnes left the club and conquered Proud Boys and their badociates headed down Park Avenue, according to the police. A small group of masked demonstrators doubled back on Lexington Avenue to intercept them, the police said. The opposing groups came face to face on East 82nd Street, where the fight started.

The Proud Boys, who had the members of the far – right groups, like the 211 Bootboys and Batalion 49.

It remains unclear from a surveillance camera's videotape of the melee that the police released whether the bottle was thrown before or after the Proud Boys rushed the anti-fascist demonstrators.

On the night of the brawl, the police arrested three protesters in a separate incident and charged with them. For days, the Police Department has been criticized for failing to arrest any Proud Boys members. Then police commanders announced they were searching for nine people affiliated with the group, as well as three anti-fascist protesters.